Landmark legislation sees the Australian government committed to the novel step of child protection by banning social media for under sixteens.
Unenforcible Law.
Gotta require ID verifications and ban all VPNs in order to actually be enforcible.
Surely, the website owners would never sell your information, right? Right?
Banning the Three Letter Word is unenforceable too. If you ban Open*** and Wireguard - too bad, China has done that and people developed obfuscation methods. Even if you try to ban talking about them, they won’t go extinct. If there’s a supply, there’s a demand.
Preach
The ID verification is the purpose. Keeping minors off is a smokescreen, tracking every citizen on social media is the real reason for this law.
Gotta require ID verifications
that’s exactly what they are “evaluating” now along with “biometric (age and voice) estimation”.
government, politicians and media are constructing a parallel reality for themselves.
Introducing friction with massive population groups like this is actually effective at bringing numbers down.
Take the porn ID stuff in the US. Yes VPN usage is up but traffic is down as well. Not everyone is going to take the extra steps.
Put it on the parents. That’s enforceable, and the root of the problem…
